Back to Parliament: Same Old Labor Government, Nothing Changes
Anyone thinking that another Labor face in the Premier's spot on Labor's Parliamentary benches would be something different, only has to look at last weekend's Labor transport announcement.
This is the tenth time we've heard this sort of thing from Labor - and each new 'plan' gets filed in the fiction section of our local libraries.
The new year has started as the old finished – with Labor attempting to put a new face on its fifteen year old government and continuing to make
decisions based on its own political goals and not the best interests of the public.
A month after Joe Tripodi and Eddie Obeid chose the State’s latest Labor premier, Ms Keneally is yet to announce a single new initiative to help families and business deal with the daily challenges they confront.
Last week NSW found itself with its fourth Labor Premier in four years - chosen by those Nathan Rees described as the 'malignant and treacherous' forces with the Labor Party, Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi - with the public again denied any say.
Better Transport and Infrastructure for NSW
Over the last two weeks, I've visited numerous communities and people have been strongly reinforcing the need for better infrastructure in NSW, especially transport.
I remember well the last days of the school year when report cards were looming. I spent many hours working through a measured defence of results, which I anticipated would be peppered with comments such as "could do better".
Premier Nathan Rees promised in the November mini-Budget he wouldn't be cutting frontline services.
Well, that is another lie to add to the growing list of Mr Rees' 'loose with the truth' moments.
Shadow Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian and I revealed Labor plans to axe around 600 frontline rail staff, while giving middle managers a pay rise of up to 17.5%. Talk about wrong priorities!
Treasurer Wayne Swan today confirmed in a post-budget radio interview that the allocation of $91 million to NSW for planning for the West Metro is 'chicken feed', considering a total of $8.45 billion has been handed out for rail, road and ports projects around the country.
ALP Oppositions always talk a lot tougher about women than ALP governments. Liberals are a bit the reverse. Historically they were a bit diffident about courting the human rights vote but when they got in, they always behaved decently.
Take domestic violence. John Howard was the first prime minister to identify domestic violence as a national issue and introduced the first Partnerships Against Domestic Violence programme in 1998. Its particular focus was prevention.
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